The long-haired woman glanced at Jiang Xia and snorted, though her volume reluctantly returned to normal. She smoothed out the hair she had messed up while running home and muttered, "They mean the same thing, but you make it sound much nicer—fine, I'll tell you. From two to three this afternoon... I should have been watching a movie at the Cinema."
Officer Takagi pressed, "Who did you go with?"
The sofa buyer pursed her lips and reluctantly replied, "By myself."
Officer Takagi said, "Hmm..." In that case, things seemed a little suspicious—for example, perhaps this woman had accidentally killed someone near Furniture City, then stuffed the body into the sofa and bought it, hiring someone to carry it home so she could deal with it slowly afterward...
Of course, that was only one possibility. No matter what, the priority was to check out that secondhand Furniture City first. If there were surveillance cameras there and they had captured the person hiding the body, that would be wonderful.
With that in mind, he temporarily ended his questioning of the sofa buyer and called the junior officers who had gone to Furniture City.
Before long, the owner of Furniture City hurried over after hearing the news.
"This sofa?" The owner examined the fabric sofa that had fallen to the floor. "I remember it. We only bought it yesterday afternoon."
"It was sold as soon as you bought it?" Mouri Ran also liked browsing secondhand stores from time to time, and she could not help asking, "Don't used furniture pieces need to be sorted out and cleaned before they can go back on the market?"
The store manager scratched his head awkwardly. "In theory, yes. But while we were unloading it, Miss Hosono happened to walk by and fell for this sofa